I consider Fox News a bunch of people who figured out how to make money off of trolling. From this to the "Santa is white" story, it's all they ever do. CNN never involves itself in controversy like Fox News seems to want to.

I really wish they'd use actual voice actors for animated films rather than celebrities who just talk normally. They don't really bring anything to the film that can't be accomplished by someone better and more experienced.

One of my favorite moments of failure was when the Muppet movie came out a few years back. The puppets were doing a junket interview thing, which was hilariously absurd already. Everyone was asking them silly questions, and just having fun with it. Some toolbag from Fox News asked Kermit (I know, right?) what he thought of the obvious left leaning aspect of his movie, and how they made their main villain an oil company tycoon.

This guy proceeded to get his ass handed to him by Steve Whitmire (Kermit) and Frank Oz (Miss Piggy). You know what, I'll just link it.

Shadowknight:One of my favorite moments of failure was when the Muppet movie came out a few years back. The puppets were doing a junket interview thing, which was hilariously absurd already. Everyone was asking them silly questions, and just having fun with it. Some toolbag from Fox News asked Kermit (I know, right?) what he thought of the obvious left leaning aspect of his movie, and how they made their main villain an oil company tycoon.

This guy proceeded to get his ass handed to him by Steve Whitmire (Kermit) and Frank Oz (Miss Piggy). You know what, I'll just link it.

They've got a point. Liberals refuse to leave kids alone when it comes to an oppurtunity to brainwash them into accepting an agenda.

I mean, you'd never see a conservative pundit pushing a children's boo-, okay, bad example. What I meant was you'd never see a Republican presidential contender putting out children's videos full of historical revis-, okay, strike that one. One thing you'll definitely never see a sitting Republican senator stooping so low as to release a coloring bo-, goddammit.

Maybe I'm missing something, but there wasn't anything in it that struck me as anti-business. It was more a morality tale against blind conformity. The most I can figure it that they didn't even see the movie and are basing their tirade solely on the fact that the villain, as seen in the trailer, is named President Business, and that's only because ***SPOILERS*** Will Farrell is obviously some kind of businessman. His villainy didn't come from profession, it came from the fact that his kid saw him as a rule-obsessed control freak who was unable to have fun with something that was meant to be fun and chaotic and imaginative. ***SPOILERS*** But then, what should I expect from the network of the Professionally Offended™.

skinink:I consider Fox News a bunch of people who figured out how to make money off of trolling. From this to the "Santa is white" story, it's all they ever do. CNN never involves itself in controversy like Fox News seems to want to.

As Dergarabedian goes on to suggest implicitly that calling a major studio's marketing synergy-based movie franchise "anti-business" might be overreaching, Payne replies that it at least sounds like "hypocrisy" to him. A hypocrisy that may result in the children who see it developing antagonistic attitudes toward business, even as they demand their parents buy them more Lego bricks.

Having pointed out the hypocrisy of a media company using bobbleheads to decry the very things they profit from, Payne returned to complaining about entertainment for Fox.

Bloody William:wildcardjack: My only concern is if there's enough Will Farrell to make this a Will Farrell movie. I have yet to watch a movie focused on him and I refuse to break that streak.

Nope. He's the antagonist, but it's definitely not his movie.

Also, uh, how to say this without spoilers... There's something that happens at the end where you expect conditions to arise that allow him to go into full Will Ferrell mode. That doesn't happen. He actually goes into Drama Ferrell mode and pulls off a moment that, at the very least, leaves one with a lump in their throat. So, in conclusion, low levels of Ferrell and what is there is not what you would expect of him.

Ishkur:I really wish they'd use actual voice actors for animated films rather than celebrities who just talk normally. They don't really bring anything to the film that can't be accomplished by someone better and more experienced.

In general, it's a sign of an animated movie to avoid.

/ the Pixar movie that pushed the names more than any other is Cars// Linguini in Ratatouille was voiced by a Pixar art director

Shadowknight:One of my favorite moments of failure was when the Muppet movie came out a few years back. The puppets were doing a junket interview thing, which was hilariously absurd already. Everyone was asking them silly questions, and just having fun with it. Some toolbag from Fox News asked Kermit (I know, right?) what he thought of the obvious left leaning aspect of his movie, and how they made their main villain an oil company tycoon.

This guy proceeded to get his ass handed to him by Steve Whitmire (Kermit) and Frank Oz (Miss Piggy). You know what, I'll just link it.

That is freakin high-larious. That reporter got his ass handed to him by about 2 pounds of felt! How much would you love to have been able to hear the other reporters after the event giving him a world of shiat for being beating by a couple of puppets?

ishkur I really wish they'd use actual voice actors for animated films rather than celebrities who just talk normally. They don't really bring anything to the film that can't be accomplished by someone better and more experienced.

You have no idea how much this pisses off professional animated voice artists, the one they all cite as the worst offender is Cameron Diaz in the first "Shrek", sub-scratch track, flat readings...but producers love the "celebrity voice" & figures it adds to the audience & will pay way overquote for it, here's the guns yer Lego Mini-figs need in a hostile situation the Danish won't provide:http://www.firestartoys.com/Shop/Minifigure-Weapons/Clone-Army-Custo ms -Guns.html

Nabb1:BumpInTheNight: Oh I'd forgotten about the Lego movie, I'm going to go steal it off the internet right now! Thanks fox news foot note in an otherwise great review that got it greenlit on the fark!

You're really speaking truth to power stealing that copy of a children's movie off the internet instead of just paying $8 to see it.

sotua:I loved it, and so did my kids. Paid the costly cinema tickets and didn't feel ripped off at the end *cough* cars 2 *cough*

I was reeeeaaalllllyyy incredulous, then found out the same people did Clone High, which I unabashedly adore. I suppose if it ever shows up on Netflix or if I need to kill some time with friends/relatives kids, I'll check it out.

Agree with celeb voiceovers being lame, though. Unless they're awesome. Elizabeth Banks did not seem to be one of those.